They have to get used to a different playing field. They will not control committees anymore, that sort of thing. I think on some of these big picture issues over the well leave this hearing to keep our over 40year commitment to coverage of live congress. Hear more of this at cspan. Org or our mobile app cspan. Org. Coming up, House Speaker nanty sy pelosi is expected to announce if she will or will not seek another term as leader of the democratic party. Lawmakers will also work on fema disaster aid. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me . Today, o god, we lay before you our petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving. We request that you bestow upon us the joy of your presence among us. That when we look upon the faces of those who labor in these halls known and unknown, elected or employed, we may see your
Weve got 493 billion out of the pentagon Defense Budget and were about to cut half a trillion, which brings it close to 950 billion. Out of the 10 year budget. The signal that sends to the world is that the united dates is not going to be in a position to contribute to a more peaceful and stable world in the decade ahead. The mac thanks, afterwards, Substance Abuse and Mental Health administration. This week in her book, drink, the intimate relationship between women and alcohol. The former editor at large of canadas macleans magazine examines what she calls the closing gender gap in the world of risky drinking. She argues heavy drinking is contributing to several Health Conditions and cancers and more women in the early draft for more than 20,000 a year in the u. S. Alone. The program is about an hour. Just goes so nice to be here. Host im excited to have this visit with you about the new book called drink, very intriguing and provocative and like i said, right when i was working in t
There are systems in the building that you may remember that i mentioned this earlier, a fire depression and the emergency lights when the power goes out and the emergency power and these systems called evacuation rescue and recovery, and their survivebility is critical if the building is in a crisis mode. What they did was go back and look at every single space that had a critical system in it, the building is long and this is one floor and all of those little colored dots represent a critical space. Each one of those spaces therefore, in this final design phase was given additional attention, a better door, a better frame, a better wall and a better way to get in and out so it will survive. If it survives, the system that it supports will survive and that is a safer building. And one of those systems where there is an investment was in the Fire Suppression system, the building was quite large and we opted to have an Additional Fire pump included, the building is five stories essentia
That to me a pretend has spoken on the telephone to barack obama for the second time in six days but the pair remained far apart of the ukraine. However a kremlin statement said russias president stressed in the coal that relations between his country and the us but two important that political stability and security to stop but because of the crisis. President obama has ordered sanctions at the mosque and smite a tree intervention in ukraine and said the proposed referendum the crimea to join russia would violate international any discussion about the future of the complainant must include the legitimate government of ukraine. In two thousand fourteen we are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders. But routine now appears to have the upper hand up to parliament in Ukraine Southern crimea reaching thirty to join russia until the referendum on the move from march to sixteen hits to the deadline to prove rush and demonstrate is outside its da
This is something that we simply have got to move forward on. I was happy in 2012, i was able to get language in their that put a cap on this Publicprivate Partnerships. And there are folks around this country where theyre moving forward on that. Its really critical. And mr. Bishop rod of foreign manufacturing possibly taking place possibly take the place of domestic manufacturing. Thats something we havent talked about here but thats really critical. 40 balance in trade, for our economy, for a number of reasons. I guess what i would like to ask all of you, but mr. Jones if he would start out, how are Publicprivate Partnerships going to be affected by sequestration and the c. R. . What kind of longterm effects are we talking about . I agree with you, Publicprivate Partnerships are absolutely critical, protect the critical capabilities in both the public and private sector now more than ever as we are seeing significant downsizing. Capacity within the national sustained and daschle base